Need To Know… 12.8.13

by capelesst

only what you need

Hey everybody, it’s a big week for the Orbital crew, what with the new Dead Cats exhibition from Christian Ward opening Thursday, Peter Hogan signing on Saturday, and the pop-up stall at the Ritzy for their Kick-Ass Cape party on Saturday night!

But it’s paragraph 3 and DC hasn’t done anything dumb yet! Oh, wait. They either rejected a Paul Pope Kamandi pitch, or said they make comics for 45 year-olds. Or both. But that did at least contribute in some infinitesimal way to Battling Boy‘s existence, so that’s not a total fail. They fired Kevin Maguire from Justice League 3000 in usual tacky fashion, but that gave Bendis the chance to play shining knight in armour, so we get a Maguire issue of Guardians of the Galaxy. Ah, this is more like it, they screwed up their biggest 2013 event, and screwed retailers and readers over in the process. Oh, DC. But on a more thoughtful note, J. Caleb Mozzocco considers the current state of the New 52, its latent potential, the myth-making that accompanies rejected pitches, and many other things. It’s a great post. What are DC doing right, though? That’s The Question.